Search pizza near me from anywhere in Williamsburg and you get more serious hits per block than almost any neighborhood in America. Within a 20-minute walk of the Bedford Avenue L stop you have a Neapolitan pioneer, the slice shop with the most photographed burrata in New York, a sourdough upstart, a wood-fired neighborhood joint run by a pizza documentarian, and a square-slice specialist holding down the Greenpoint border. This guide strings all five into one walkable crawl — ordered south to north, with real walking times, what to order at each counter, and when to start so nothing is closed when you arrive.
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How the crawl works
The route runs about two miles on foot, south of the Williamsburg Bridge up to Franklin Street in Greenpoint, with an optional G train shortcut at the end. Do it on a Saturday: Leo opens at 9am on weekends but not until 5pm on weekdays, so a weekday crawl forces an awkward evening detour. Start around noon, share slices if you can — five stops is a lot of dough for one stomach — and budget four to five relaxed hours. Every stop except Motorino is counter service, so the crawl moves as fast as the lines do.
Stop 1: Motorino, the wood-fired warm-up on Broadway
Begin at 139 Broadway, on the pedestrian plaza in the shadow of the Williamsburg Bridge — one stop from Manhattan on the J, M or Z to Marcy Avenue. Mathieu Palombino's Neapolitan room opens at noon on weekdays and 11am on weekends, and the move here is the brussels sprout pie: fior di latte, smoked pancetta, garlic and pecorino on a puffy, leopard-spotted crust. If you start on a weekday, the prix fixe lunch — a salad plus a whole pizza for about sixteen dollars — is quietly one of the best deals in the neighborhood. Sit where you can watch the oven and pace yourself; this is the only full-pie stop on the route.
Stop 2: L'Industrie, the burrata slice that built a line
Walk eight minutes north — about 0.4 miles up Driggs and over to 254 South 2nd Street — and you hit the crawl's heavyweight. Massimo Laveglia opened L'Industrie in 2017 and had to knock through to the space next door in 2021 just to fit the demand — this is the shop most pizza near me searches in the neighborhood are really looking for. The burrata slice is the icon: a crisp, floppy New York base crowned with a cool ball of cream. The fig jam and bacon slice is the sleeper. Weekend midday lines run 20 to 30 minutes, but they move; regulars either come mid-afternoon on a weekday or order ahead for pickup and walk straight past the queue. Whatever you do, end with the pistachio soft serve finished with olive oil — it sounds wrong and eats right.
Stop 3: Leo, sourdough on Grand Street
Four minutes away at 123 Havemeyer Street, on the corner of Grand, Leo is what happened when the crew behind Ops brought their sourdough obsession deeper into Williamsburg. The crust sits somewhere between a crisp New York slice and a chewy Neapolitan, with a distinct tang from the natural starter, and the room doubles as a bakery and natural wine bar. Remember the hours quirk that shapes this whole crawl: 5pm to 11pm Monday through Friday, 9am to 11pm on weekends. On a Saturday you can grab a single slice and a glass and keep moving; on a weekday, swing back here for a proper sit-down dinner instead.
Stop 4: Best Pizza, the white slice on Havemeyer
Continue six minutes up Havemeyer, across Metropolitan Avenue, to number 33. Frank Pinello — the host of a long-running pizza travel show — has run this one-room joint since 2010, and it stays defiantly a neighborhood slice shop: a short menu board, white paper plates, a wood-fired oven doing the work a gas deck does everywhere else. Order the white slice. Ricotta and pecorino over a charred, sesame-seeded crust, topped with caramelized onions cooked down so sweet they read like jam. It is a top-three slice in the borough and the fastest stop on this route.
The finisher: Paulie Gee's Slice Shop
The last leg crosses into Greenpoint. Either ride the G from Metropolitan Avenue two stops to Greenpoint Avenue, or walk the 25 minutes up Bedford and Franklin — the long way doubles as a digestif. At 110 Franklin Street, Paulie Gee's retro-styled slice shop turns out both classic New York rounds and Sicilian squares cut from big 18-by-12 pans, plus one of the deepest vegan slice benches in the city. It also solves the endgame problem: on Fridays and Saturdays the shop serves until 1am, which makes it the rare quality answer to a late-night pizza near me search this far north in Brooklyn. Finish with a square, then stroll to the East River for the skyline.
Practical notes
Transit: the L to Bedford Avenue drops you mid-route; the J, M and Z at Marcy Avenue serve the start; the G at Metropolitan and Greenpoint Avenues covers the finish. All five spots take cards, and slices run roughly $4 to $8 while whole pies land between $20 and $30, so a full crawl costs about $35 per person if you share. None of the slice counters take reservations — Motorino is the only stop where booking a table (or aiming for the weekday lunch deal) makes sense. Saturday from noon to early evening is the ideal window for a pizza near me mission here; Sunday works too, but Friday pushes Leo past dinnertime. Seating is tight everywhere, so be ready to eat standing, and wear real walking shoes — with the Greenpoint leg you will cover close to three miles.
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